This is an Irish soap about the inhabitants of an apartment building in Limerick City. It's told in play script form, which I liked (hey, it's different) in general (especially about being able to hear full conversations), but I didn't care that much for how the incidental information was told (it was a long break in the action). Then again, I'm probably just being nitpicky, and I don't know how that could be improved anyway. After going through a few beginning episodes, I think I'll have to come back and check out some more. When I first started reading, the plot featured a girl who found herself going out with the building's ladies' man, which seemed interesting, as well as a couple in crisis and a business-related plot. It's on hiatus until 1999.

Features: The producers of CQ are holding a competition to find actors to portray the CQ characters in face and voice. If you're Irish (or at least can do an accent), send in a photo and you could win! There is also an short audio summary of each show.

This is the funniest soap I've found so far on the Web! It's excerpts from 1950's-ish movie star Paulina Periscopa's book (which I think is titled Sans Me. Hmmm?)
As her adventures start, Paulina is a girl from Liechtenstein who has nothing to do but make out with the local cows (who get raped by ravens a lot)- until her parents betroth her to Prince Boo, a man whose eyebrows look like two caterpillars "making sex." Paulina is pitched into a convent for refusing to marry him. She spends her time there making sex with Pablo the Goat Boy until Peter Lawford arrives to take her to America. (She would have made sex with him, but the ravens raped him first. "He never touched me again.")
It goes on from there, with Paulina meeting, acting, and making sex with movie stars (shades of Forrest Gump), in between dodging her homicidal ex-fiance. It's loony fun, with great little touches in it (like having to hike for days to get to Louis B. Mayer's desk). Paulina goes back and forth between first-person to things like "Help Paulina!" I found this annoying when Bob Dole did it, but it's hysterical here.

When I was looking at this site I found a section thanking about four sites (or magazines, or something) for giving them good reviews. Frankly, I'd just like to know why? (Bet you could tell from that that they won't be thanking me for any) The main plot is about a guy named Citizen Kane (all right, who picked out the names for this one? There's also two brothers named Austin and Healy- and take a wild guess at the name of his girlfriend.) who's working on a movie, in between losing his girlfriend who wants to get married. How the story is told is confusing. Most episodes are mostly pictures and like two small cryptic paragraphs of plot. You don't really get to know any characters too well in this one. It isn't that linear (CK and girl are together, then she's left town, she's still there and never left, she's left for good-huh??) either. Sometimes there are pages with a lot of writing in first-person narrative- but by WHO? It's never said! And sometimes the plot goes off on Healy working at a ski resort- which does have a lot to do with the main plot either. Sadly, the best parts of the soap are all the pictures of Rosebud (yeah, real cute name, huh?) I have no idea when this soap is updated, as no dates are ever mentioned anywhere.

Features: There is a job board for independent filmmakers and people looking to act in films. I learned from reading Steve Merlin's Index that there is supposed to be movie soundbites here, but I didn't see anything related to that.

A TV-related episodic, it's for those who were fans of the TV show Lois and Clark, which was canceled after four seasons. So some very dedicated fans decided to start writing their own episodes of the show, in a general TV format. It started with season 5 (linked off the page for season 6) and is now on their second season of episodes. The episodes get into their struggling to have children while still battling evil. While it's long reading, they stay pretty true to the flavor of the show.

I followed this one for quite a while, until I lost my bookmarks for it (my bookmark file is SCREWY). It's "Victorian Refinement in the Old West"- a combination of nobility and frontier living, ilicit relationships, some family fighting, and who's going to wind up with whom. And a lot of babies. Very sweet. Things are set up well for first-time readers.

Features: Message board, characters' poetry